AI
Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs
What is good for the simulation and the machine learning is, as it turns out, also good for the database. …
Compute
Compute
Baking Specialization into Hardware Cools CPU Concerns
As Moore’s Law spirals downward, ultra-high bandwidth memory matched with custom accelerators for specialized workloads might be the only saving grace for the pace of innovation we are accustomed to. …
Cloud
The Server At Peak X86
One of the reasons why Dell spent $60 billion on the EMC-VMware conglomerate was to become the top supplier of infrastructure in the corporate datacenter. …
Compute
So, You Want to Program Quantum Computers…
The jury is still out when it comes to how wide-ranging the application set and market potential for quantum computing will be. …
AI
Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning Inference With New Pascal GPUs
No one knows for sure how pervasive deep learning and artificial intelligence are in the aggregate across all of the datacenters in the world, but what we do know is that the use of these techniques is growing and could represent a big chunk of the processing that gets done every millisecond of every day. …
AI
Deep Learning Architectures Hinge on Hybrid Memory Cube
We have heard about a great number of new architectures and approaches to scalable and efficient deep learning processing that sit outside of the standard CPU, GPU, and FPGA box and while each is different, many are leveraging a common element at all-important memory layer. …
Cloud
Surfing On Tech Waves With Supermicro
If money were no object and accountants allowed companies to write off investments in systems instantly, then datacenters would be tossing hardware into the scrap heap as soon as new technology came along. …
AI
Hardware Slaves to the Master Algorithm
Over the long course of IT history, the burden has been on the software side to keep pace with rapid hardware advances—to exploit new capabilities and boldly go where no benchmarks have gone before. …
Compute
HPE Trims Back To The Core Enterprise Essentials
The Hewlett Packard that Carly Fiorina and Mark Hurd created through aspiration and acquisition is hardly recognizable in the increasingly streamlined Hewlett Packard Enterprise that Meg Whitman is whittling. …
Compute
The New Dell Stops Trying To Be The Old IBM
It is week one of the new Dell Technologies, the conglomerate glued together with $60 billion from the remaining parts of the old Dell it has not sold off to raise cash to buy storage giant EMC and therefore server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which is owned mostly by EMC but remains a public company in the wake of the deal. …